All about Margaret Hodge

March 27, 2011

The coming storm!

Filed under: Uncategorized — Patrick Harrington @ 12:59 pm
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DO YOU run a web-site or have a blog site?  Do you have a Face Book or Twitter account?  If so, get in touch with us today!
The team that research and write this All about Margaret Hodge site and the Barking and Dagenham Sentinel have big plans for the future.  But we need your help.
During last years General Election, the contents of this site – and the Sentinel – were featured and discussed on many sites.  But the establishment media ensured a complete news black out by refusing to report our revelations about Hodge.
Would this have happened with any other parliamentary candidate?  Imagine any other candidate with as much baggage as Hodge – they’d never be off the front pages.  Yet there wasn’t a peep from the capitalist press.  Why not?  (Maybe that’s a question for later.  No doubt everyone would have their own pet theory about that one).
In the meantime, we need to devise a strategy that helps us circumvent any future news blackout.  That’s why we need your help.
Margaret Hodge is just one of many MPs who we’d like to take a closer look at.  It’s our opinion that many of Britain’s MPs aren’t fit to shine the boots of their constituents – let alone ‘represent’ them at Westminster.  They need to be exposed as well.
Just a very small team of volunteer researchers and writers have produced this site and the Barking and Dagenham Sentinel. Yet look at how we’ve been able to expose her many failings.  For instance, we’ve revealed that:

 

  • She’s a ‘socialist’ MP who also happens to be a member of the fabulously wealthy Oppenheimer family.  That’s why her nick-name is ‘Loads of Money’.
  • Before she became MP for Barking in East London she was Labour leader of Islington Borough Council in North London.  He she sported a bust of Lenin and flew the red flag over the town hall.
  • Whilst in charge at Islington, she ignored social workers who warned her about the sexual abuse of children in Islington Council Care.
  • She backed government plans to trespass upon personal privacy, enhanced the power of the burgeoning database state and helped compromise our hard-won civil liberties.
  • She voted for war against Iraq.  To date, nearly 200 UK troops have been killed there.  She has their blood on her hands.

 

If we can produce all this with a few volunteers and very limited resources, just think what we could do if we had more researchers and writers.  And just think what we could achieve if we had a network of web masters and bloggers who’d be able spread the word.
That’s where you come in.
First of all, we’d like your help in tracking down more info about Margaret Hodge.  The more people looking, the more we’re likely to find.
Secondly, we’d also like to feature more on her running mate, Jon Cruddas.  He’s the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham.  He’s also a ‘socialist’ but he has two homes – one an upmarket flat in a Notting Hill mansion-block.  Doesn’t he deserve to be exposed to the same degree as we’ve exposed Hodge?
Thirdly, we’ve already mentioned that we’d also like to take a look at other MPs.  What about the one who represents your area?  Are they a liar and hypocrite?  Should we expose them as well?
To help us out, send us details of your web-site or blog.  Also contact us if you have access to Face Book or a Twitter account.
Every time we produce a new article on, say, Hodge – and there are many, many more to come! – we’ll be able to send it on to you.  You can then re-post it.  This means that increasing numbers of people will be aware of what Hodge, Cruddas and other MPs are up to.
You’ll be continually updated with more and more info about the MPs we’re looking into.  And the more current information your site or blog carries the more likely people are going to visit you.
We’ll also feature articles on all those sites and blogs that help us out in this way.

Help us expose all lying, cheating MPs.  Help us create such a storm that the establishment media won’t be able to ignore us for much longer.  Contact us by e-mail: allabout@hushmail.com (Please don’t forget to include source material).

March 6, 2010

Margaret Hodge – Expenses scandal reignites

Filed under: Expenses scandal — Patrick Harrington @ 8:01 am
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THE CONTROVERSY over the MPs expenses scandal has reignited.

And one trade union leader has spoken out against Margaret Hodge, Labour MP for Barking. 

He has criticized her expenses, accused her of betraying the founders of the Labour Party and has questioned her socialism.  He also contrasted the lives of ordinary working folk with that of “unaccountable politicians” like Hodge.

Mr. Adam Walker  is the President of Solidarity Trade Union - Solidarity describes itself as ‘a free, autonomous Nationalist trade union’. 

 Speaking about the expenses scandal he said:

 “Margaret Hodge should be ashamed of herself and the actions of her fellow MPs.  At a time when workers have to tighten their belts, MPs seem to be spending money like its going out of fashion.”

Mr. Walker  said that he couldn’t understand why Hodge had hired her former press officer for ‘PR’ support (1).

This was in direct contravention of House of Commons rules.  These state that MPs are barred from claiming expenses for “self-promotion or PR” for individuals or political parties.
Hodge – who featured in the Daily Telegraph’s expose of MPs expenses – claimed over £2000 for “PR Support” from a company called Chilli and Spice.

Chilli and Spice is based in Chelmsford, Essex.  It is run by Ms. Janet Coull.  She was a press officer for Hodge when the MP was a junior employment minister.  Chilli and Spice was paid the money for four months’ PR work.

Hodge claimed that Coull was paid for “articles, reports and speech writing”.  However, receipts from Chilli and Spice submitted to the Commons fees office by Mrs Hodge specify that they provided “PR support”.

Mr. Walker said that many people would be astonished that Hodge had seemingly been able to  abuse the system of parliamentary allowances:

“The rules state that MPs can’t claim for PR – yet Hodge has done this!”

 In a wide ranging attack on Mrs. Hodge, the Solidarity President also reiterated his claim that she had “betrayed the founders of the Labour Party.”

“In my view, the founders of the British Labour Party were patriotic socialists.  I’m talking about people like Keir Hardie and Bob Blatchford. They must be spinning in their graves when they see how their socialist ideals have been distorted by MPs like Hodge.”

 Mr. Walker expressed outrage that half of all MPs have been ordered to pay back more than £1million in dodgy expense claims. (2)  He also pointed out that three of Mrs. Hodge’s fellow Labour MPs have been charged with false accounting over their expenses claims.

“These are so-called ‘socialist’ MPs.  Yet they are almost on a par with the greedy bankers and fat cats.  They all seem to be tying to outdo each other in who can rake in the most.

At the same time ordinary British working folks have to get by on very little.  Is that fair?  Is that just?”

 (1) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/5425232/MPs-expenses-Margaret-Hodge-hired-her-former-press-officer-for-PR-support.html
(2) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mps-expenses/6601356/MPs-expenses-fraud-charges-for-six-MPs-and-lords.html

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